posted by SpringSource on April 8, 2010 12:06 PM

For development and operations teams, a presentation that covers performance tuning Tomcat and the JVM alongside configuration options, load balancing, and more.

In this webinar, Apache Tomcat committers Mark Thomas and Filip Hanik discuss performance tuning Apache Tomcat for your production environment. This webinar focuses on Tuning Tomcat and the JVM to correctly handle your application including usage patterns, hardware and network topology. You’ll learn when and how to apply the different tuning and configuration options as well as understanding load balancers and how they can impact your configuration settings. Also discussed: the impact of clustering and replication on your environment.

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posted by SpringSource on October 27, 2009 02:19 PM

Understanding mod_jk, mod_proxy, and mod_proxy_ajp

There are three main modules available for connecting Apache to Tomcat:

mod_jk
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This module has the load balancing capability that was not supported in mod_proxy prior to Apache 2.2. The use of mod_proxy_ajp is preferred over mod_jk for Apache 2.2 or later.

For further documentation on mod_jk, see the official documentation as provided by the Apache Software Foundation:

Working with mod_jk:   http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-3.3-doc/mod_jk-howto.html

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